Lukkahatai, Nada https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3820-1812
Jiang, Yannuo
Zhang, Jingyu
Kawi, Jennifer
Wu, Hulin
Wang, Hongyu
Campbell, Claudia M.
Thrul, Johannes
Abdi, Salahadin
Hacker, Eileen D.
Johnson, Constance M.
Smith, Thomas J.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Cancer Institute (R01CA245054)
Article History
Received: 20 June 2026
Accepted: 5 August 2026
First Online: 1 September 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval: This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (IRB00243141).
Consent to participate: Informed consent was obtained before participation from all study participants included in the study.
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Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.